- Provide intake, assessment and case management services, utilizing a client-centered, strength-based, harm
reduction approach to clients actively using substances
- Coach or assist a client in the development/maintenance of abilities relating to activities of daily living, self-
care, crisis management strategies, symptom management, maintaining a support network, and skills
teaching such as budgeting, grocery shopping and other life skills.
- Assess the client’s support needs based on indicators of stability (i.e. daily living skills, housing stabilization,
finances, connection to primary healthcare, social networks, etc.)
- Draft clear coordinated care plans (CCPs) for each client that advance client’s immediate needs and mid-
term goals. Reassess and adjust those plans periodically throughout the service.
- Work with the housing team to provide overall support to the tenants and respond to any crisis or
emergency that presents.
What You Bring to the Team:
- Strong understanding of and experience in providing harm reduction and case management support.
- This position will use a trauma informed, harm reduction, client centered, anti-oppressive approach to all of
their work. This position requires respect for, and expertise working with, tenants who are facing mental and
physical health issues, active substance use, history of trauma, abuse and social isolation and who come from
racially and ethnically diverse backgrounds
- Extensive experience working with people who have experienced homelessness and poverty; understanding of
the issues of homelessness, poverty and discrimination facing this community and how these issues affect the
lives of individuals
- Strong commitment to harm reduction, trauma informed, anti-oppressive and client- centered principles
What Sets You Apart:
- Demonstrated experience in conflict resolution and crisis management.
- Demonstrated experience and commitment to harm reduction, trauma informed, anti-oppressive and client
centered principles.
- Extensive experience working with people who come from diverse racial, gender, ethnic and cultural
backgrounds and who have experienced varying degrees of mental health, social isolation and substance use
- Extensive knowledge of community based resources
- Proven ability to challenge organization, staff and tenant communities in a positive and creative way to effect
better service.
- Well-developed interpersonal skills that will produce effective, productive and appropriate relationships with
the tenants, community, external agencies and staff at Fred Victor.
Compensation and Benefits:
- For the Life Skills Case Manager, Fred Victor offers an hourly rate of $29.40
- 4 weeks of vacation to start + 1 float day
- Generous paid sick leave allowance
- A comprehensive Dental, Extended Health and LTD group benefits package includes individual and family
coverage, including prescriptions, hospital accommodation, hearing care, paramedical practitioners and a wide
variety of dental care. Additional insurance includes vision care and travel for emergency medical services.
- 6.5 % of your gross salary will be contributed to a group RRSP on your behalf after successful completion of
probation; you will contribute 4% of your gross salary to the same RRSP.
- Access to employee and family assistance plan
How You Can Apply:
Internal employees who are interested in this opportunity are encouraged to apply through ADP by navigating to
Myself > Talent > Career Centre. External candidates may apply using this link: Fred Victor ADP Career Centre or by
scanning the QR code:
